![]() It was, he told me, “kind of an SJW community.” It was a welcoming place, one where men who didn’t know how to talk to women could ask the community’s female members for advice (and vice versa). The teenager, now a man who uses the handle “ReformedIncel” to keep his internet history out of his offline life, recalls the online incel world of the 1990s and 2000s fondly. ![]() ![]() The group eventually became a community, one that began using a phrase to describe their romantic troubles - “involuntary celibacy.” Later the term would get shortened: “incel.” There he found friends: other people who were awkward in real life, particularly when it came to sex and dating. He was a shy kid, too introverted to feel fully comfortable in the real world, and he logged on to the early internet’s bare-bones web forums for a sense of connection. In the late 1990s, a lonely teenager on the West Coast fired up his dial-up modem to find someone to talk to.
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